[sldev] My Trials and Tribs

[Tillie Ariantho]

On 10.12.2009 22:26, Laurence Brickner wrote:

> Thanks.  I uninstalled 2005 about 6 months ago, but somewhere in that vast
> pile of CDs I get from Mother Microsoft every month is an install CD for the
> Full 2005.  Is it worth looking for or is the express version sufficient.

Hello Laurence,

I got the client compiled with the 2005 Express version.

Was a bit of a fight first, as I had no idea of Visual Studio at all, but now all is well. I got the source zip running and a checkout from svn, too.

Compile is only working from within the UI, though, because whoever wrote develop.py didn't try with the Express version, so it chokes two times, first on a missing registry entry, that's just not
available for the Express version, and then on a not existing EXE file, that is not part of Express either.

Just use the UI and all is well (or go fix the develop.py and submit a patch :D).

I'll check the wiki pages at some time and update them. But best would be to rewrite the "how to compile SL client" stuff from scratch, it's far too many different pages and very confusing.

Maybe 1 page for each OS, only.

Tillie